Re: [Cz-L] Games

11-26-09

For anyone interested in actually seeing the "Ketchka Doma" being played, there is a 1934 movie starring Laurel and Hardy (no, not Hardy Breier) entitled "March Of The Wooden Soldiers" (AKA "Babes In Toyland"), in which Stan Laurel hits Ketchka's with a short stick. He calls the Ketchka a Pee-Wee. The Pee-Wee has a boomerang capability. Was that true of the Ketchka as well?
 

Gary Rogovin

-------------- Original message from "HARDY BREIER" :
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> Two more games come to my mind , I dont know if they are exclusivly
> Czernowitzer:
> 1. Stollen (German)- these are horseshoe studs . As horses were present on
> all streets the cobblestones
> caused the 2 big horseshoe studs to break off . We used to collect them
> and play them.
> You tossed them up and made them land on the back of your hand .
> Played on every street corner.
> 2. "Ketchka Doma" . This is ukrainean and probably a local game .
> The "Ketchka" was a piece of wood pointed at both ends , abt 3 inches
> long .
> By hitting down at one of these ends with a batter ,the peg would fly
> up -
> Now in mid -air you had to hit it with the batter driving it " home" as
> far you could.
> Home in Ukrainean is Dom and so the game was called "Ketchka Doma ".
> Sometimes the game ended by using the batter in settling disputes.
> Hardy
>
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